Recap / The Patrick Star Show: S2E3: "10 & 1 Toilets" / "Family Plotz"

10 & 1 Toilets

Original air date: 11/8/23

Tinkle has ten puppies, which the Stars are unprepared to take care of. GrandPat helps train them, but could he have ulterior motives?

10 & 1 Toilets contains examples of:

• Circling Birdies: After GrandPat plunges a toilet puppy to get a donut back from it, the puppy has stars, donuts, and toilet paper rolls circling its head.
• Continuity Nod:
  • When Tinkle is angry and Patrick has a Potty Emergency, he shrugs it off that he'll just save it for "the next gas station we visit", recalling their trip to Gas Land in "Gas Station Vacation".
  • Tinkle's pediatrician, Dr. Plumber, returns from "The Drooling Fool".
• Cruella to Animals: GrandPat wants to disassemble the toilet puppies and use their parts to relive his glory days as a toilet-themed fashion designer.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Tinkle "leaks" and the family follows a trail of water to find him in a shed, where he has given birth. In a way, his water broke.
• Fan Disservice: GrandPat's toilet-themed outfit gets torn to shreds, and he goes out on the runway with his disgusting, wrinkly, bare butt showing, no clothes on him besides a tiny piece of toilet paper covering his crotch.
• Group Picture Ending: The episode ends with the Stars, their puppies, and the TV and its new puppies all taking a photo together.
• Here We Go Again!: The episode ends with the Stars' TV having run away and arriving with its own puppies.
• Laser-Guided Karma: GrandPat tries to kill puppies to revive his old line of fashion. In the end, Tinkle beats him up and gives him a swirly, and he is left humiliated in front of the audience.
• Medium Blending: The puppies watch live-action footage of a waterfall on TV.
• Pun: Patrick interviews a mummy and asks, "So, why do mummies get such a bad wrap?"
• Surprise Litter of Puppies: Tinkle is suddenly very aggressive to the family, and runs off into a shed to give birth. The family takes care of the resulting toilet babies.
• Training Montage: A montage shows GrandPat training the puppies through effective tools (snakes), plunging them to retrieve stolen items, and teaching them to do tricks.
• Whole-Plot Reference: The episode's title and plot are a homage to 101 Dalmatians.
• Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Tinkle has always been referred to as male on the show, leaving the question as to how he got pregnant. When Patrick sees the puppies and asks "Tinkle's a girl?", Dr. Plumber responds that no, Tinkle is a toilet.

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Family Plotz

Original air date: 11/9/23

While waiting for Cecil's soupestroni to finish cooking, the Stars pass the time with a visit to the local cemetery. Cecil has a picnic, Bunny does yoga, GrandPat visits the mortuary, and Patrick and Squidina play games.

Family Plotz contains examples of:

• Added Alliterative Appeal: When Cecil is making soupestroni.
  Cecil: Nothing more relaxing than making a big pot of Cecil's savory soupestroni!
• Bait-and-Switch Comment:
  • After Cecil tastes his soupestroni:
    Cecil: It's perfect!... -ly ready to simmer for about 11 more minutes!
  • When Cecil sees Patrick and Squidina playing, he stops them... only to give them more stuff to play with.
    Cecil: Hold it! You two shouldn't be fighting... (holds up two graves) without wearing these cool mallet mittens I made you!
• Bait-and-Switch Silhouette: Squidina is playing hide-and-seek with Patrick in the cemetery. She sees the shadows of multiple star-shaped things that she assumes to be Patrick until lightning illuminates what they really are: a bush, a gravestone, and a mausoleum decoration. Patrick is actually right behind her, "hiding" by covering his eyes with a flower wreath.
• Black Comedy: The episode is full of surprisingly dark humor. For instance, when GrandPat plays fetch with Tinkle, the toilet ends up bringing back a dead guy in his mouth. Later, GrandPat is mistaken for a corpse and gets embalmed.
• Bookends: The story starts and ends with Cecil in a giant vat of soupestroni. At the end, he serves it to the zombies who have joined the family for dinner.
• Brick Joke: GrandPat's Goldilocks story comes up again at the end, where he's napping in a coffin and Papa Bear returns to maul him.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: GrandPat is the only one not scared by the zombie invasion, because he knew everyone back when they were alive.
• Continuity Nod: Cecil makes a cheese sandwich while repeating "you got your cheese, you got your cheese...", the same way Patrick did it in "Stuntin'."
• Counting to Potato: Patrick counts for a game of hide-and-seek, and goes "1, 2, C, uh, banana..." Thankfully, some grave robbers are nearby to help him learn to count.
• Dagwood Sandwich: Cecil puts so much cheese on his sandwich that it stretches out into space.
• The "Fun" in "Funeral": Patrick, Squidina, and Cecil crash a funeral, rolling around in the hole dug for the grave and playfully bashing each other with gravestones.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Cecil's soupestroni needs to simmer for 11 minutes, the length of a usual Patrick Show episode.
• Portmanteau: Cecil cooks his own soupestroni, a combination of "soup" and "minestrone".
• Random Events Plot: Most of the episode consists of the Star family's antics in the cemetery, without much of a coherent throughline.
• Shout-Out: Apparently, the story of Goldilocks is actually about the last time GrandPat tried to take a nap outside the house.
  GrandPat: Ah, people are still talking about it!